Women’s shot preview – IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014

Turkey’s world youth champion Emel
Dereli is second on the 2014 junior list with a 17.93m toss, but she will be
challenged by China’s 2011 world youth champion Guo Tianqian, who has reached
18.08m this season.

China won four successive world
junior titles in the women’s shot between 1990 and 1996, but haven’t won any
since then, so Guo will aim to end that drought.

Guo has six of the top eight marks in
2014 and Dereli the other two; next is USA’s Raven Saunders at 17.28m.